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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Ryan

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Ship Name

Elgin (Adelaide 12 Sep 1849)

Details

BG67/A/9 p.306, Minutes 14 May 1849 listed as one of 15 girls from Clonmel PLU selected for emigration; Report, pp.36-7 & 40, alleged Adelaide prostitute; South Australian Archives GRG 65/1/1 24/8/1850 & GRG 65/1/2, 9 Mar 1854; in Aug 1850 charged with stealing from August Fischer an upholsterer in Morphett St, Adelaide for whom she had just began work as a domestic servant on 6/- per week; some newspaper reports report her as alias Mary Ann Ward or Mary Ann Moore; had lived in Hindley St. as servant to Mr & Mrs Hugall; stole trousers in Sep 1851, sent to gaol for a year; seems to have died 23 Jul 1855 in Adelaide, aged 21.

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